Earlier today I found the
following list of Biblical quotations on a blogsite that I read from
time to time. I don't always agree with the author on a number of
issues, though I frequently appreciate his insight and clear thinking
on a range of church and culture-related subjects. In any case, with
the present heated debate in the USA about reform of the laws that
regulate immigration (especially from south of the border), I think it
is helpful to prayerfully reflect on what the Lord has declared on the
subject in His Holy Word. Such reflection, I believe, can only help
Christians and Jews on any "side" of the debate.
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<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Exodus 22:21</span> "Do not mistreat an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in Egypt.<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Exodus 23:9</span> "Do not oppress an alien; you yourselves know how it feels to be aliens, because you were aliens in Egypt
<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Leviticus 19:10</span> Do not
go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have
fallen. Leave them for the poor and the alien. I am the LORD your God.<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">
Leviticus 19:33</span>
"'When an alien lives with you in your land, do not mistreat him. The
alien living with you must be treated as one of your native-born. Love
him as yourself, for you were aliens in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Leviticus 25:23</span> "'The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine and you are but aliens and my tenants.<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Deuteronomy 10:18
</span> He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the alien, giving him food and clothing.
<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Deuteronomy 10:19</span> And you are to love those who are aliens, for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt.<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Deuteronomy 24:14</span>
Do not take advantage of a hired man who is poor and needy, whether he
is a brother Israelite or an alien living in one of your towns.
<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Deuteronomy 24:17</span> Do not deprive the alien or the fatherless of justice, or take the cloak of the widow as a pledge.<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Deuteronomy 24:19ff
</span> When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf,
do not go back to get it. Leave it for the alien, the fatherless and
the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of
your hands. When you beat the olives from your trees, do not go over
the branches a second time. Leave what remains for the alien, the
fatherless and the widow. When you harvest the grapes in your vineyard,
do not go over the vines again. Leave what remains for the alien, the
fatherless and the widow.
<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Deuteronomy 27:19</span> "Cursed is the man who withholds justice from the alien, the fatherless or the widow." Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">
Jeremiah 7:6</span>
if you do not oppress the alien, the fatherless or the widow and do not
shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods
to your own harm,
<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jeremiah 22:3</span> This is
what the LORD says: Do what is just and right. Rescue from the hand of
his oppressor the one who has been robbed. Do no wrong or violence to
the alien, the fatherless or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood
in this place.
<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ezekiel 22:7</span> In you
they have treated father and mother with contempt; in you they have
oppressed the alien and mistreated the fatherless and the widow.<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">
Ezekiel 22:29</span>
The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery; they
oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the alien, denying them
justice.
<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Zechariah 7:10</span> Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the alien or the poor. In your hearts do not think evil of each other.'<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Malachi 3:5
</span> "So I will come near to you for judgment. I will be quick to
testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who
defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the
fatherless, and deprive aliens of justice, but do not fear me," says
the LORD Almighty.
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